August 30, 2026
Why Do Photos Come Out Sideways? (And How to Fix It)
Your phone never rotated the photo. It wrote a note asking software to rotate it, and half your software ignores that note. Here is what is really going on.
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Thoughts on tools, files, and getting things done.
August 29, 2026
How MyTools Helps You as a Home Daycare Provider
Fourteen side tasks that fill a home daycare provider's evenings, from licensing packets to photo updates, each with the free in-browser tool that handles it.
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Five Steps From Phone Photos to a Rental Application PDF
The landlord's portal wants one PDF under the size cap. Five steps take a folder of phone photos and two forms to a single file that uploads first try.
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Three Free Ways to Trim a Video Online, Honestly Compared
Online Video Cutter, Canva and MyTools all trim video for free. Here is how their size limits, quality caps, privacy and sign-ups actually compare before you upload.
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Twenty Posters and a Number Nobody Wanted to Type
Bruno slipped out at 9:40 PM. By midnight Ruben had a poster, a photo, and a free QR code generator doing the job a phone number could not do on its own.
Read more →August 16, 2026
How to Rotate a PDF (and Make It Stick)
Rotate one page, a whole PDF, or twenty files at once — and save it so the person you send it to sees it upright too. Nothing is re-encoded, nothing uploaded.
Read more →August 8, 2026
How to Trim an Audio File (Without Re-Encoding)
Cut an MP3, WAV or M4A down to the part you want: drag the waveform, type exact times, and keep the original encoding untouched. Free, private, no sign-up.
Read more →August 5, 2026
Bitrate vs Sample Rate vs Bit Depth: What Each One Does
Three numbers describe every audio file, and only one of them decides how big it ends up. Here is what sample rate, bit depth and bitrate each control.
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How MyTools Helps You as a Church Choir Director
Fifteen side tasks that fill a church choir director's week, from sideways sheet music to rehearsal tracks, each with the free browser tool that handles it.
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Five Steps From a Recorded Talk to a Published Audio Episode
You filmed a talk and only the audio is worth publishing. Five steps turn a 1 GB video into an episode uploaded as a YouTube draft, with nothing downloaded.
Read more →August 2, 2026
Remove.bg Alternatives: Adobe Express and MyTools Compared
Remove.bg alternatives compared honestly: where its free preview limit bites, what Adobe Express asks for in return, and when running the model locally wins.
Read more →August 1, 2026
Sixty-Three Archive Photos in the Wrong Order
Ines photographed 63 pages of an 1890s ledger at a municipal archive. Here is how she used a free browser tool to convert JPG to PDF and fix the order.
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